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In 2016, the USA's Federal Bureau of Investigations, issued a statement in Manila: a surge in cases of trafficking of children from the Philippines, and within the Philippines, for the purposes of sexual exploitation by Americans was now a focus of the long-running Operation Cross Country. For the first time, the team had operatedm in conjunction with local law enforcement agencies, its campaign outside US borders in Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines. In four days, 82 minors were rescued and 239 traffickers and associates were arrested. See our 2012 story